(Wall Street Journal) Dion Nissenbaum - As the U.S. military campaign against Islamic State winds down, the Trump administration is turning its focus to what it sees as a bigger threat: Iran. U.S. officials are wrestling with where and how to repel what they describe as a significant Iranian military expansion across the region. "Our leadership has set as an objective not to allow Iran and its proxies to be able to establish a presence in Syria that they can use to threaten our allies or us in the region," one senior U.S. administration official said.
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